Rush steps into dog mess

Rush Limbaugh barked at President Barack Obama on Wednesday for eating dog meat when he was young, and laced into the Obama campaign for “trying to make hay” out of Mitt Romney having forced the family dog to ride on the roof of his car three decades ago.

“This makes me really, really uncomfortable,” Limbaugh said on his radio show. “You’ve probably heard the outrage — the Romneys putting their dog on the roof of their car in an enclosed kennel back in 1983 and heading down the highway, which apparently is a fact so horrible, the Democrats have created a website and a fundraising organization around this. Meanwhile, the Obamas are showing their love for dogs.”

Limbaugh accused the Obama camp of exploiting Bo Obama — the first family’s Portuguese Water Dog — for “all kinds of fundraising drives,” while seizing every opportunity to criticize Romney for once making his now-deceased dog Seamus ride on the roof of the car during a trip from Boston to Ontario in 1983.

“As I say, this makes me extremely uncomfortable,” Limbaugh continued, according to a transcript of his show. “But it’s got to be discussed because Obama’s trying to make hay out of the Romneys putting their beloved dog on the roof of the car in a kennel. And now Obama, in his own autobiography, writes of having eaten dog.”

The conservative radio personality then imitated Rev. Jeremiah Wright, imagining how the president’s former pastor might defend Obama.

“Mitt Romney ain’t never had to eat no dog meat. And Barack has. Barack knows poverty. Mitt Romney never had to eat no dog meat,” Limbaugh said.

“With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy),” Obama wrote in the book.